Unlike we lazy media types who got the origin story spoon-fed to us last week, the Meow Wolfers will only tell you so much. But unless you are proactive in your approach to engaging with the exhibit, you might miss it. There is a dense, bottomless sci-fi narrative to all of this, smartly conceived as such to keep the enthralled puzzle-solving crowd coming back time and again. His collaborator, Molina Speaks, calls this room “a space for humanity, indigeneity, coexistence, creativity and radical imagination.” Another room uses multimedia in an attempt to capture the frayed, synaptic nature of Alzheimer’s disease.īut as you walk around, you are sure to notice there’s something more going on here than spectacular art that both drops jaws and calls attention to urgent social issues. Don’t miss the creature who vomits rainbows.īut there are also deeply meaningful and culturally significant art displays including the Indigenous Futurist Dreamscape Lounge, which combines music with the epic storytelling of Denver artist Stevon Lucero, who combines Toltec, Aztec, Chicano, and Afrofuturist traditions. Tour “Bacon Faces” - 666 murals inspired by Francis Bacon … and bacon. Visit a creepy, alternate universe Chuck E. There’s a hilarious Wac-A-Mole ode to prairie dogs where you can crawl in and be one with the moles. There’s a Tim Burton-inspired purification room with laundry machines that spin everything from tiny aliens to teeth. Eighty separate and often anachronistic commissioned art projects have been carefully curated into this strange new world they call “Convergence.” (More on that in a sec.)Īs Stefon would say on “Saturday Night Live,” it’s got everything: My favorite room is a dystopian cave that features inner-city rats standing in for boxers in a Rock ’Em Sock ’Em-style cage match. We’re talking neon, projections, video, paintings, music, steel, lighting, dioramas, spray painting, woodworking and even crochet. On its most basic and understandable level, Meow Wolf is an endless, pulsating, 3-D modern-art exhibit that pushes every form. It’s a cheeky fever dream, a future world and a selfie palace and just about the biggest escape room in the multiverse (with no locked doors). And it’s an Easter Egg hunt for super-smart gamers. And it’s a Dave & Buster’s for the “Stranger Things” set. It’s a truly impressive multimedia modern-art exhibit. So what is the Meow Wolf experience … exactly? Well, it’s many things at once.
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